Sacrifice of the Seven Sins: A YA Romantic Dystopian Novella
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When Ari Westergaard first encounters the fierce Eva Marteinn, she stands resolute as she reluctantly condemns a man to death. Her bravery captivates him...and captures his heart. But in the oppressive Commonwealth, where even friendship is a capital offense, Ari must bury his growing attraction deep within.
As Ari grapples with his forbidden emotions, his childhood friend Gentian's compassion for the weak puts them both in peril. Caught between loyalty and the law, Ari makes a dangerous choice that seals their fates forever.
Discover the gripping prequel to the Seven Sins series, where love is the deadliest sin of all.
Author's Note
Experience the dramatic opening scene of Sword of the Seven Sins from Ari's point of view! This novella can be read as a prequel or after Sword. Fans of Divergent and Fourth Wing will love this twisty, fast-paced dystopian romantasy series.
Praise for the Seven Sins Series
WINNER, North Carolina Indie Author Award for Young Adult Fiction
WINNER, Silver IPPY Award for YA Fiction
WINNER, Gold Moonbeam Award for Best Book Series
2x FINALIST, Foreword INDIES Award in YA Fiction
SHORTLISTED, Manly Wade Wellman Award for Science Fiction and Fantasy
"A series everyone should know about." —M. Lynn, USA Today bestselling author of The Queens of the Fae series
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About the author
Emily Colin wrote her first romance novel in the fourth grade and never looked back. Today. she is the New York Times bestselling author of adult and young adult fiction featuring love stories with a supernatural edge. She writes dystopian romance, romantic fantasy, paranormal romance, and romantic book club fiction. Basically, if it’s got a love story, she’s into it!
For young adults, she is the author of the Moonbeam Award-winning romantic dystopian-fantasy series, The Seven Sins. Sword of the Seven Sins, the first book, was a Foreword INDIES Award finalist, won the YA fiction award of the North Carolina Indie Author Project, and was shortlisted for the 2021 Manly Wade Wellman Award for North Carolina Science Fiction and Fantasy. The second novel, Siege of the Seven Sins, was a 2021 silver IPPY Award winner and Foreword INDIES finalist. Emily co-edited and contributed to the young adult anthologies Wicked South: Secrets and Lies and Unbound: Stories of Transformation, Love, and Monsters, which was a Suspense Magazine Best of” 2021 pick as well as a 2021 INDIES Award finalist.
For adults, she is the author of The Memory Thief, which was a New York Times bestseller and a Target Emerging Authors Pick, and The Dream Keeper’s Daughter, which Publishers Weekly called “a splendid mix of time travel, romantic yearning, and moving on after grief.” Dissent, the 2022 romance anthology to which she contributed a short story, hit the USA Today bestseller list the week of its release.
In her non-writing life, Emily has over two decades’ experience in the fields of arts education and creative youth development. She's also organized a Coney Island tattoo and piercing show, hauled fish at a dolphin research center, and roamed New York City (and Italy!) as a teenage violinist. Originally from Brooklyn, she writes, teaches, edits, and indulges her mocha addiction by the sea in North Carolina.
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